Twenty-three states have decriminalized marijuana to some degree. And with privateer holdings investing nearly $82 million in weed startups, the industry is poised to pull in a lucrative—and legal—profit.

The Juul from PAX might be the slickest e-cig ever with its pocketable design, squared edges, and tiny magnetic USB charging dock. But it might look a bit too much like a puffable memory stick for its own Good.

Some people are worried that the new season of Game of Thrones will deviate too much from the books. Angry Nerd is worried that it won’t stray far enough. He explains why the brutal plot trims are needed when it comes to the show.

The male orgasm is an explosive affair, but the female orgasm? Now, that’s a different story. Find out what’s really going down when a woman gets off.

Jessi Hempel interviews Megan Smith, Chief Technology Officer of the United States, about the historic role women have played as coders, her personal history, and goal for her time in Washington.

WIRED editor Chris Kohler explains why Super Mario Bros. is the most important video game in history. From rich graphics to expertly composed music to innovative game design, Super Mario Bros. set the standard for what makes a great video game.

Elite Beat Agents is based off a Japanese video game for Nintendo DS. But instead of male cheerleaders and Japanese pop songs, the U.S. version relies on “Men In Black”-like agents and good ol’ fashioned American hits from the Jackson 5 and Madonna. Chris Kohler explains why the stateside edition is the best music game of all time.

Have some old speakers or an unconnected stereo? The Gramofon and the Griffin Twenty make streaming audio a breeze, even if your gear dates to the days of disco.

It’s reminiscent of old Grand Theft Auto games, but Hotline Miami is in a league of its own. It tricks you into thinking it’s cute, but don’t be fooled, it's one of the most gruesome and bloody video games of all time.

More people are using bikes for transportation and electric bikes can make the trip a lot easier. While expensive, the Faraday Porteur is one of the most elegant and zippy e-bikes we’ve tried.

THE BIGGEST APPLE developer event of the year kicked off this morning at Moscone Center in San Francisco. WIRED’s David Pierce attended the WWDC keynote, and he gives us a quick recap on all the news. There are enhancements coming to Apple’s desktop OS, it’s iOS software, and a big update to the three-months-old Apple Watch that includes support for native apps.

Super Hexagon is not a video game for the easily discouraged. You die early and often until eventually (hopefully) you get into the swing of things. WIRED editor Chris Kohler explains why it’s the most difficult video game of all time.

Photographer Adam Ferguson documents the environmental and human costs of illegal sand mining in India where rapid growth fuels a sometimes violent black market for one of the most basic raw building materials.

You’ve seen Justin Bieber, Kendall Jenner and JR Smith cruising on these things. What are they exactly? Are they safe? Can I buy one? WIRED Senior Writer David Pierce has the answers and tips for riding The Scoot, even the knockoffs of the knockoffs.

Pixels director Chris Columbus talks to WIRED about the fun of 8-bit arcade games and building a real life Donkey Kong set for the new action comedy.

Find out how the visual effects came together for the end of season five on Game of Thrones, including Daenerys' elaborate and cinematic escape with her drogon.

Ocean Currents Create Garbage Patches.

Scientists are looking to an unlikely source for new ways to fight bacteria. Could the skin of a Galapagos shark hold the key to warding off hospital-born bacteria and superbugs?

The jerboa looks like a cross between a mouse and a tiny kangaroo and wow, can it hop! The rodents' elongated, powerful legs can propel the little fur balls as far as six feet.

A physics professor re-imagines the size and shape of an NFL football in an effort to optimize it for flight. It turns out a couple of small changes can add a whole lot of distance, but how would that change the way the game is played?

Your new kitchen cabinets might contain a glue in them that was inspired by mussels. Explore the chemistry that mussels use when attaching to boats and find out how that science is being imitated to develop strong adhesives that don’t rely on toxic formaldehyde.

From the Samsung Gear S2 smartwatch to the Star Wars Sphero BB-8 toy, Youtuber MKBHD gives a few gadgets a spin to help you figure out what to put on your wish list this holiday season.

The $330 Coravin Wine System beats a corkscrew any day and makes sipping and saving wine easy. It slides thorough the cork and fills the bottle with an inert gas as you pour, so leftover wine won't spoil.

It's been a good year for gear heads, so we've put together our top 5 gadgets of 2015.

WIRED executive editor Joe Brown checks out a temperature regulating coffee cup, a connected flowerpot, a remote pet food dispenser and a very loud speaker that doubles as a beverage cooler.

CES is a seemingly endless bonanza of product debuts. Everything from cars and drones to headphones and televisions is on display and in mind-boggling quantities. These products are WIRED's favorites.

Drones, throwback gadgets and the ever growing world of connected Internet of Things gear topped WIRED's CES 2016 trends.

Jon Cheng and the Brooklyn Boulder Gym are working together on a real life video game for rock climbers.

Thanks to "room-scale" VR, full-body gaming is coming. WIRED's Peter Rubin tries out "Raw Data," a first-person shooter that turns players into jumping, shooting, crouching, katana-slicing action heroes. Your living room will never be the same again.

Virgin Galactic unveiled its new SpaceShipTwo shuttle designed to more safely bring tourists on sub-orbital space flights.

Avegant's Glyph is a personal movie theater, a screen only you can say that you can use to watch movies, play video games, and anything else you want. Just don't expect people not to stare.

There's a terrifying hunter lurking on the bottom of tropical seas. It's called the bobbit worm, and it can destroy.

Half-a-billion people store their files on Dropbox. But until recently, those were sitting in Amazon's cloud. Now Dropbox has cut out the middleman and built its own super servers, challenging the internet’s biggest cloud computing companies.

Kids swallow a lot of batteries. But now MIT researchers are developing swallowable origami to fish the nasty foreign objects out.

For gamers, World of Warcraft represents a massive universe in which they’ve spent many hours. But for many moviegoers, WoW’s Azeroth is a completely foreign place they know nothing about. So for his new movie, Warcraft, director Duncan Jones—a gamer himself—had to create a world that would bring in new fans and make long-time WoW players feel like they were coming home. In this interview with WIRED, he explains how he worked with Industrial Light & Magic to make that happen.

The tree kangaroo may have shrunken hind legs, but hey, at least it can walk backwards unlike regular roos. Oh, also: It can plummet out of trees and not suffer the consequences.

Lost luggage is down by 65% thanks to some new tech. Follow the roller coaster ride that your bags make into the bowels of the airport.

Tesla's Gigafactory, under construction in Sparks, Nevada, will be the largest building in the world, by footprint, when it's finished. The batteries it produces are crucial to Tesla's plan to make affordable electric vehicles.

The garden eel is harmless and actually pretty cute. But get a bunch of them together and things start looking a wee bit creepy.

Must be action cam season again and now Garmin has stepped into the game with it's Virb Ultra 30. It doesn't do a bad job when matched against the GoPro Hero4.

Virtual Reality is the next frontier in entertainment, but it’s so new that the rules are still being written. No one knows the best way to develop, advertise, or create yet – and that’s what makes it so exciting.

The tech giant released a slew of new hardware, including two new smartphones, a VR-headset and a home assistant. Here's everything from the Google event.

UCLA’s Dr. Dennis Hong gives us a glimpse into a new project that could change the way we think about interactive gaming.

Parking sucks. Looking for a space, driving round and round, trying not to hit a pillar. Fear not, the robots have it covered.

Researchers at the Wyss Institute at Harvard University have built a robot that can smoke cigarettes just like a human to better understand lung diseases. You're welcome, smoking lab rats.

Achates Power is reviving the century-old opposed piston layout to make gas-powered cars more efficient.

2016 was the year a lot changed in gear. We lost headphone jacks on iPhones, got Snap's Spectacles and artificial intelligence is now powering a lot of our gadgets.

CES isn’t just giant TVs and smart washing machines from big brands. Here are a few of the neatest items and accessories we’ve come across this year.

The massive consumer tech companies from China have come up with a plan for world domination: Make all of the gadgets used by everyone, everywhere.

A look at the industry-shaking in real life meet up of beauty world influencers, their fans and the brands that compete for their attention.